Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>In today's world?? yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant <b>David Allen</b> recognizes that time management is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; setting priorities isn't relevant whe"your e-mail is down; procrastination solutions won't help if your goals aren't clear. Instead?? Allen shares with readers the proven methods he has already introduced in seminars and at top organizations across the country. The key to Getting Things Done? Relaxation.<p>Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity. His seamless system teaches us how to identify?? track?? and-most important-choose the next action on all our tasks?? commitments?? and projects and thus master all the demands on our time while unleashing our creative potential. The book's stylish?? dynamic design makes it easy to follow Allen's tips?? examples?? and inspiration to achieve what we all seek-energy?? focus?? and relaxed control. </p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>With first-chapter allusions to martial arts?? "d like water??"and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled)?? you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called <I>Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance</I>.<p>  Not quite. Yes?? <I>Getting Things Done</I> offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However?? it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really?? really organized?? we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit?? Allen?? whom the New Economy bible <I>Fast Company</I> has dubbed "sonal productivity guru??" suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane?? you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)<p>  As whole-life-organizing systems go?? Allen's is pretty good?? even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk?? The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally?? throw the whole stew into a giant "sket" <p>  That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system?? it get a little convoluted a